Match-safe.



PATENTED JULY 31, 1906 J. ROEMISCH. MATCH SAFE. APPLIOATIOIf FILED MAR.1a, 1906.

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J. ROEMISGH.

MATCH SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED 14,111.13, 1908.

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JOSEF ROEMISCH, OF EARLSBORO, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

MATCH-SAFE.

Application filed March 13,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEF RoEMrsoH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Earls-- boro, Pottawatomie count and Territory of Oklahoma,have invente certain new and useful Improvements in Match- Safes, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to improvements in match-safes, and has for itsobject to provide a simple, durable, and inexpensive device of thischaracter having a suitable depository for matches and capable ofdelivering one at a time for use.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction and arran ement of parts hereinafter described and shown,and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings forming part of this-specification, and in which likenumerals of reference designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is aperspective view of a match-safe constructed in accordance with thisinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, the side wall being removed. Fig.3 is a view of the bellcrank lever, the cylinder, and the bell andclapper.

Referrin to the drawings, 1 designates the casing; an 2 the side walls,of my matchsafe, aving a hopper 3.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1906.

1906. flerial No. 395,885.

in engagement with the lever 5. The projecting end of the lever operatesin a guideslot 13 in the casing 1.

A bell 14 is arranged in the rear of the lever 5, and a spring-arm 15,secured to one of the walls 2, is provided with a weighted end 16,arranged between the lever and the bell, so that when the lever isreleased from having been pressed down will strike said spring arm,'hich will ring the bell, thereby giving evidence that a match has beentaken from the safe. The object of the bell is to prevent mischievousboys or thieves from helping themselves toofreely to matches by givingthe alarm when the same is being done.

What I claim is- 1. A match-safe having a hopper, a cylinder mounted atthe base of said hopper and having a groove, a bell-crank leverpivotally connected with said cylinder and with the base of the device,one end of said lever having a projecting portion extending through aguide-slot, and an elliptical spring adapted to hold said groovenormally out of engagement with said hopper.

2. A match-safe having a hop er, an oscillatin cylinder mounted at thease thereof, and diaving a longitudinal roove, a bel crank lever mountedin the ottom of said safe, and havin its upper end pivotally con- 4designates a cylinder mounted in the walls of the device and is arrangedat the base of the hopper 3. The c linder 4 is pivotall connected with abe -crank lever 5, whic is rovided with a collar 6, pivotally connectewith a suitable support 7 in the bottom of the device. The lever 5projects throu h the casing and is provided with a thum -piece 8, bywhich the lever is pressed down which causes a partial rotation of thecylin er 4, which causes said cylinder to present a longitudinal groove9 at the bottom of the hopper, into WhlCll groove a match isautomatically fed. The lever is then released, and a spring 10 causesthe lever and the cylinder to assume their normal positions, by whichthe match fed into the groove is dropped into a suitable catch 11. hespiral nected with sai cylinder, and the other end forming a thumb-piecefor actuating the same, a s ring mounted beneath said thumb-- iece, an aguide-rod for holding said spring 111 engagement with the same.

3. Amatch-safe having a cylinder, a groove formed in said cylinder, acollar pivoted the bottom of said safe, a bell-crank lever mounted insaid collar, and having its upper end pivoted to said cylinder foroscillating the same, and its outer end forming a thumbpiece, a springengaging said thumbiece, and a bell adapted to ring when said cy inderis oscillated.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ailix my signature 'in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSEF ROEMISCH.

Witnesses;

H. .C. DAVANTT,

spring 10 is provided with an interiorly-arranged guide-rod 12, whichholds said spring 0. M. RODMAN.

ringing of the

